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NICE!

opae ula related wrote:NICE!

Thankyou!

The dust is finally settling, for now

This is fantastic, Odin,
It will definitely help put my setup in order.
Ann

Salt and thermometer have gone in, I'm going to wait a few hours for all the salt to dissolve, test the salinity and then adjust if needed, I put slightly over the amount in question (330 grams into 20L tank) so when it's ready I will no doubt have to remove a cup or more of the tank water and replace it with just a cup of pure RO to dilute the brackish water and retest the salinity. Rinse and repeat until I hit around 1.012 - 1.013.
Once the salinity is fine I will add the matured substrate to kickstart the cycle!

I do like these cubes, also. Now you'll have Ying and Yang tanks.
Ann

I tested the SG/Salinity of the new tank and to my surprise it was WAY under, 1.005! so i dosed the marine salt again, this time adding 400grams and mixing it into the tank directly. I waited a few more hours and tested the SG/Salinity again with my refractometer and it sat around 1.013 - 1.014 so i will leave the tank for a few days and retest. If the salinity is sat on 1.013 then i wont touch the water further, anything over and i will add some pure RO to bring the salinity down a little.

Here is a bad shot of my meter looking through the refractometer, sorry for the quality its so hard lining up a phone camera down a scope making sure enough light is coming in to show the result Its pretty clear in real life situations.
I also added one small scoop of matured crushed coral from one of my other tanks to seed the new one, this will reduce the cycle time dramatically.


Note: the tank has had 730grams of Instant ocean salt all together.

Is this for Alpha Opae Ula?

opae ula related wrote:Is this for Alpha Opae Ula?

Close! im having a shuffle around and moving the deep red shrimps into this new tank eventually and this will free up the ready mature tank for some Alphas hopefully.

3rd June 2016
Ive tested the SG of the new setup today and i get a reading of 1.012 to 1.013, more luck then anything
The temperature in the tank is 20 deg C and i have dosed the tank with Prodibio Biodigest,